happen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (偶然) 发生； 碰巧， 恰好，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, if you want to KNOW, Martin Arrowsmith, I'll have no more of these high jinks with that Orchid girl!Practically hugging her when you came downstairs, and then mooning at her all evening!I don't mind your cursing and being cranky and even getting drunk, in a reasonable sort of way, but ever since the lunch when you told me and that Fox woman, 'I hope you girls won't mind, but I just happen to remember that I'm engaged to both of you'-- You're mine, and I won't have any trespassers.
-- I happen to be married already!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What may happen to her during those ten years?
-- He could hear passers-by, always numerous in that part, but he could not be seen from the entrance, unless someone came in from the street, which might well happen indeed, so there was need of haste.
-- 'Listen,' Raskolnikov hastened to say, 'I've only just come to tell you you've won your bet and that no one really knows what may not happen to him.
-- Yesterday he insisted so earnestly on our re-fusing Pyotr Petrovitch and now we are ordered not to receive Rodya!He will come on purpose if he knows, and 芒聙娄 what will happen then?'
-- 'Oh, it's not exactly 芒聙娄 you see, since you've been ill I happen to have mentioned you several times芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It does happen unfortunately,' said Mr. Wickfield.
-- For some little time we held no conversation, Steerforth beingunusually silent, and I being sufficiently engaged in wondering,within myself, when I should see the old places again, and whatnew changes might happen to me or them in the meanwhile.
-- 'Oh, really, Master Copperfield,- I mean Mister Copperfield,' saidUriah, 'to see you waiting upon me is what I never could haveexpected!But, one way and another, so many things happen to mewhich I never could have expected, I am sure, in my umble station,that it seems to rain blessings on my ed.
-- Howbeit, it did sometimes happen that it wasnot easy to find another, without making a long circuit; and so Ihad passed that way, upon the whole, pretty often.
-- And now, indeed, I began to think that in my old association of herwith the stained-glass window in the church, a propheticforeshadowing of what she would be to me, in the calamity thatwas to happen in the fullness of time, had found a way into mymind.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So very odd we should happen to meet!Well, Miss Woodhouse, is he like what you expected?
-- Yes, Harriet, just so long have I been wanting the very circumstance to happen what has happened.
-- It made her animated open hearted she voluntarily said; 'Oh!Miss Woodhouse, I hope nothing may happen to prevent the ball.
-- and so forth I always felt that something would happen in our favour; and so it has, you see.
-- Here am I come down for only one day, and you are engaged with a dinner-party! When did it happen before, or any thing like it?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lifted his hat with respect, and not without gallantry: stepping close to her hanging feet he said in a hesitating voice, "Do you happen to want a shepherd, ma'am?"
-- Genteel strangers, whose god was their town, who might happen to be compelled to linger about this nook for a day, heard the sound of light wheels, and prayed to see good society, to the degree of a solitary lord, or squire at the very least, but it was only Mr. Boldwood going out for the day.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Pshaw!much funnier things than _that_ happen here!"
-- They are such a couple of dry sticks that if they happen to strike against each other they will draw sparks like flint and steel."
-- The most terrible catastrophes only happen among the heights.
-- And this that happened between father and daughters may happen to the prettiest woman in Paris and the man she loves the best; if her love grows tiresome, he will go; he will descend to the basest trickery to leave her.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which experienced navigators scarce-ly remember to record, and I shall be well content if nothing worse happen to us during our voyage.
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